Bernie

You read it right Chad. And yes I do have an XP CD. Three of them in fact.

From the XP CD recovery console I can see the partitions but they are
"unformatted".


Chad Harris wrote:
> Roges--
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> Maybe I'm misreading, but I thought this was more of a lost data recovery
> than simply repairing XP. Bart's PE is excellent, but if simply repairing
> XP would do the job, I'd do a repair install booting from the XP CD if
> Bernie has one.
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> CH
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> "Roges Hyspeed Internot Slurport" <Internet.support@rogered.you.com> wrote
> in message news:uAUTBTatGHA.2260@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> "Bernie" <bernie@nospam.org> wrote in message
>> news:uPHJPPatGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> I have all the most important data backed up. But I have a huge number of
>>> downloads (utilities and lots of other stuff) that would take a long time
>>> to replace. It is worth it to me to spend some hours and even some money
>>> not to have to replace those things. So...
>>>
>>> I had four partitions; XP, Vista, Linux and a Linux swap. The XP
>>> partition is the important one.
>>>
>>> So I can see there are sites promising partition recovery software for a
>>> fee. I don't mind a smallish fee but I want to know what works and what
>>> doesn't first.
>>>
>>> So anyone out there good at data recovery?
>>>
>>> More data: I have another drive in the machine with a lot of free space
>>> but it is also my data drive. It is okay but doesn't have an O/S on it.
>>>
>>> There isn't a working O/S on the main drive and it is the main drive that
>>> I want to recover. So the ideal solution is something that can work from
>>> a bootable CD.
>> Have you tried "Barts PE" or any of the similar bootable roms ?
>>
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